Corrupt TV News Refuses to Say Nice Things About Donald Trump
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Just in case there was any doubt, Donald Trump provided his definition of “fake news” today: The Fake News is working overtime. Just reported that, despite the tremendous success we are having with the economy & all things else, 91% of the Network News about…
West Virginia’s Surging Democrat Richard Ojeda Slams Trump
Mark Helenowski/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday, West Virginia state Sen. Richard Ojeda easily won the Democratic nomination in the state’s 3rd Congressional District. Ojeda, as I reported in a profile for Mother Jones, is pushing a kind of populism that is upending the political landscape in…
Paul Ryan Is OK With Nunes Doc Demand That Might Risk Lives
Mother Jones; J. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rep. Devin Nunes has lately taken to demanding that the Justice Department turn over records of the Mueller investigation. For obvious reasons, records of active investigations are normally confidential since the FBI doesn’t want to (a) hurt innocent people who…
Raw Data: Rent in 3 Big Cities
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here are the rent indexes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for three of the most expensive cities in America, adjusted for overall inflation: Until the late-90s, rents in these cities bounced around but ended up roughly flat compared to 1960. Since then, it’s been…
North Korea Releases Three Detained Americans
Al Drago/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The three Americans detained in North Korea have been released and are making their way back to the US with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, President Donald Trump announced on Twitter Wednesday morning. The move comes as Trump and North Korean leader Kim…
That Racial Profiling Incident at Nordstrom Rack Apparently Wasn’t a First
A Nordstrom Rack in Columbia, MarylandTripplaar Kristoffer/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Danielle Stubblefield, 42, stood outside a Nordstrom Rack store feeling frustrated, desperately hoping to prevent what she believed was an instance of racial profiling from escalating. The police had been called on several black teenagers who had entered the…